UK broadcaster CITV has commissioned ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures to make a second series of Thunderbirds Are Go, even before the first has premiered. News of the second commission breaks just as the official web site for the show… Read More ›
Month: December 2014
Call For Papers: The Comics Grid
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is inviting all authors to submit contributions to the journal. The Comics Grid publishes one issue per year, with rapid publication as soon as articles are ready. Its purpose is to make original, media-specific contributions to… Read More ›
Firebox Ricky Rouse Graphic Novel Competition launched
What could be more festive than a bizarro graphic novel that’s a little bit like Die Hard, only set in a knock-off Disney theme park? Nothing, that’s what. This Christmas online retailer Firebox are giving away three hardback copies of the… Read More ›
Call For Papers: Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference
The Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference / Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, which takes place in Paris in June next year has put out a last Cal For Papers – with a deadline of the end of… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Non-Verbal Communication with Laura Malacart and artist Daniel Locke
Concluding a trio of shows about ‘untold tales’, narratives not normally depicted in comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer Laura Malacart and artist Daniel Locke on today’s Panel Borders radio show, about their comic book Yes! which explores the true story of an autistic… Read More ›
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Full Line-Up of Comic Books Announced – 2000AD, Titan on board
Fifty comics will be available during Free Comic Book Day 2015, including a Gold Sponsor Doctor Who comic from Titan – and Diamond Comic Distributors has announced thirty-eight all new Silver comics. Free Comic Book Day is the comic… Read More ›
comic Who Doctor new in Reverse Into Goes Doctor Eleventh
Titan Comics Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #6 is released next week (24th December) in all good comic shops and be warned that you’ll need to have your thinking caps on, because the events of the issue itself run… Read More ›
Titan to release new ‘White Trash’ collection in April from Gordon Rennie and Martin Emond
Titan Comics is releasing a new collection of White Trash in April 2015, a comic strip by Gordon Rennie (Judge Dredd, Dept. of Monsterology, Robbie Burns: Witch Hunter) and New Zealand artist, the late Martin Emond (Accident Man, Lobo) first published… Read More ›
Sad news as Great Beast Comics announces it will shutter in January
Great Beast Comics, a group of independent comic creators self publishing their work to a professional level founded in April 2012 by Adam Cadwell and Marc Ellerby has announced it is to shut down next month after just two years… Read More ›
Final Commando titles of 2014 On Sale on Thursday, World War One epic concludes
Here, for the last time in 2014, is the release information for the latest issues of Commando (4767-4770) from DC Thomson, on sale this Thursday, 18th December, in all good newsagents and digitally for iPhone and iPad via the Commando app…. Read More ›